An international collaboration of researchers at universities in the US and Paris has cracked the mechanism and conditions ...

In the absence of room-temperature superconductors — the Holy Grail of superconductivity, everybody put your thinking caps on! — the low temperatures required lead to expense (for cooling ...

A study in Nature describes both the mechanism and the material conditions necessary for superfluorescence at room ...

Superconductivity is an advantageous property observed in some materials, which entails an electrical resistance of zero at ...

However, researchers at MIT have discovered that both these contradictory properties live side by side in a rare form of ...

A research study led by Oxford University has developed a powerful new technique for finding the next generation of materials ...

In 2024, superconductivity—the flow of electric current with zero resistance—was discovered in three distinct materials. Two instances stretch the textbook understanding of the phenomenon.

Dias' lab was focused on high-pressure superconductivity. At extreme pressures, the orbitals where electrons hang out get distorted, which can alter the chemistry and electronic properties of ...

Critics argued that the change could be caused by effects other than superconductivity. The observation is “basically an unmistakable signature of superconductivity,” says physicist Dmitri ...

Ranga Dias, a physics professor who made headlines with claims that he had discovered a room-temperature superconductor and then was found to have engaged in research misconduct, is no longer ...

No cause was noted. The discoveries by Dr. Cooper and two colleagues that led to the Nobel Prize in physics in 1972 opened the way for superconductivity in selected fields — creating powerful ...